His magazine work has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. He is known for his bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. His novel Ghost Soldiers was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid. The book also won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble. The story Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II Most Dramatic Mission is based in the Philippines during the 1940's.
Nazifa Alam 03/07/11 B/D3 Beowulf Compare and Contrast Essay Within a new trend in the Movies Industry, a lot of classic books are selected to be turned into films for the big screen. This is the case of the epic poem Beowulf, which dates from Anglo Saxon times and is considered as the earliest poem in the modern European language. In 2007, the American director Robert Zemeckis produced Beowulf. In my opinion, he chose this poem as a source for a Hollywood movie because it carries valuable information about revelations and controversies of Old English social life and kingship. Moreover, the story is very interesting and it is full of amazing descriptions.
Stephanie Meyer is the author of the original book series. Melissa Rosenberg is the lady that took Stephanie’s bestselling novels and turned them into screenplays for movie production. There were several individuals involved in the production of this particular movie whose budget was in excess of 68 million dollars. The main people involved in the production however are the director, production designer, and the art director. The director is “the person with the ultimate responsibility for the overall film.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Autor: Styron, William Student Name: Yahaira Cabrera Barreto Course: English Foundations EN001-48 102 Instructor: Ms. Joan Zaun Due Date: April 1, 2015 Information about the author William Styron | Author (1925–2006) Novelist William Styron won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner and wrote Sophie’s Choice, the basis of an Academy Award-winning film. William Styron was born on June 11, 1925, in Newport News, Virginia. He published his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, in 1952. In 1968 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner. In 1979 he published Sophie’s Choice, which was made into a film in 1982 and an opera in 2002.
1 2 3 4 From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western, Patrick McGee The Horror Film, Rick Worland The Hollywood Historical Film, Robert Burgoyne The Religious Film, Pamela Grace Forthcoming: 5 Film Noir, William Luhr 6 The War Film, Robert T. Eberwein 7 The Fantasy Film, Katherine A. Fowkes THE RELIGIOUS FILM Christianity and the Hagiopic Pamela Grace A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first published 2009 © 2009 Pamela Grace Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the
Bibliographical Entry Burns, J. M. (1978). Leadership. New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers. Biographical Sketch of Author James MacGregor Burns is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer and pioneer in the study of leadership. He received his B.A from Williams College in 1939 and served as an army combat historian in World War II.
AUSTEN'S WRITING The movie Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone, Sense and Sensibility, starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, and Pride and Prejudice, a movie on A&E - What do these four movies have in common besides the year in which they were made? Jane Austen, the author of literary classics including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, the book upon which Clueless is based. This recent resurgence of Jane Austen in modern America almost two centuries after her death is partially due to the fact that Austen's writing transcends time and place. Although deeply rooted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Austen's books, especially Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, hold universal truths still
The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. In 2004 T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about Kinsey, The Inner Circle, was published. The following year, PBS produced the documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute, which allowed access to many of its files. Mr. Sex, a BBC radio play by Steve Coombes concerning Kinsey and his work, won the 2005 Imison Award.
DAVID P. STOWELL rP os t KEL183 Revised July 2007 The Best Deal GiIlette Could Get? Proctor & Gamble’s Acquisition of Gillette A Dream Deal op yo January 27, 2005, was an extraordinary day for Gillette’s James Kilts, the show-stopping turnaround expert known as the “Razor Boss of Boston.” Kilts, along with Proctor & Gamble chairman Alan Lafley, had just orchestrated a $57 billion acquisition of Gillette by P&G. The creation of the world’s largest consumer products company would end Kilts’s four-year tenure as CEO of Gillette and bring to a close Gillette’s 104-year history as an independent corporate titan in the Boston area. The deal also capped a series of courtships between Gillette and other companies that had waxed and waned at various points throughout Kilts’s stewardship of Gillette. But almost immediately after the transaction was announced, P&G and Gillette drew criticism from the media and the state of Massachusetts concerning the terms of the sale.
It was a no.1 New York Times best seller. The Kite Runner was adapted into a highly-acclaimed feature film directed by Mark Forster (Monsters Ball, Finding Neverland) with screenplay by David Benioff (Troy) which was released worldwide in December 2007. 1.1 • • • • • Objectives of the Study